AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



clue to the explanation of the gulf be 

 tween the biologist-student of human life 

 and the everyday observer of human 

 life. One deals primarily with the species ; 

 the other with individuals. One gives 

 his attention to humankind, the other 

 to particular human creatures. If we 

 knew other kinds of animals as in 

 dividuals and we do occasionally, as 

 when we have a particular horse or dog 

 or cat or canary for companion, or scrape 

 literary acquaintance with Lobo the 

 Wolf, or Brer Rabbit, or as when the 

 farmer or his daughter goes out morning 

 and evening with the milking stool, or 

 the pigeon or chicken fancier feeds his 

 pets; I have even come to know individual 

 bees in my glass-sided observation hives 

 if we knew other animals as individuals, 

 I say, we should have another point of 

 view regarding them. As it is we mostly 

 do not know other animals as individuals; 

 we know them as the biologist does, as 

 species. But as species they do not 

 interest many of us very much; although 

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